Genting Americas wants to build a 3.8-million-square-foot facility with up to 3,000 hotel rooms in South Ozone Park, on land adjacent to the Aqueduct Racetrack. The project, dubbed the New York International Convention and Exhibition Center, or NICE, would be the largest convention facility in the U.S.

On Thursday, the Asian gaming giant said it will work with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to fund uninterrupted subway service between Midtown Manhattan and the proposed convention center — a bid to alleviate concerns over site’s remote Queens location.

It’s not clear what such service would look like. In the 1980s, the MTA operated the “Train to the Plane,” which ran along the A line and stopped in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn before running nonstop to Howard Beach, where passengers transferred to a shuttle bus to JFK Airport. But that service lost money, drew complaints from people in neighborhoods that were skipped and was ultimately discontinued.

In addition, with ridership higher now than it was in the 1980s, the MTA runs more trains overall, making it harder for a convention center express to avoid getting stuck behind regular A trains.

Cuomo announced his support for the project in his State of the State speech on Wednesday. During his remarks, the governor also described the Jacob K. Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side as obsolete and no longer competitive with larger convention centers elsewhere in the country — a factor he said drags down the New York economy.

Cuomo also urged lawmakers in Albany to pass a constitutional amendment legalizing Las Vegas-style casino gambling in the state. The location of any future casinos in the state remains undetermined.

Genting already operates the Resorts World New York Casino at the Aqueduct site, where it has a 30-year lease on land and an option to renew for another 10 years. The company said it might need to lease additional land in order to complete the massive convention space.

The first 2.6 million-square-foot phase of the project is slated to be completed by 2014 at the earliest, Genting said Thursday, with construction of hotel rooms slated to begin in November 2015.

Obstacles loom over the project. The $4 billion price tag is steep, financing for large construction projects remains tight and convention industry is struggling across the country.

Genting said it will foot the multi-billion bill using a combination of debt and equity.